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IDENTITY BORDERS OF LOCUTIONARY ACTS AND ACTIONS in THE VANISHING HALF by BRIT BENNETT
Living in the elsewhere looks like being lock in a place, and it conveys ethnic, social, cultural, racial, national, political, regional, and linguistic identities to those persons. The study of migrants’ identities is a very vast field. Despite the progress of scientific…
ADVERTISING AND IDENTITY RE-CONSTRUCTION: THE CASE OF JUMIA AND DREAM COSMETIC
This research paper investigates the extent to which advertisement contributes to the process of identity re-construction. It explores ideological features in advertising slogans and their effects on consumers. The analysis focuses on lexical and syntactic choices in advertising taglines to sort out…
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH CHOICE AS SECOND MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE
urrently in the world, English is known as the global language with a valuable linguistic asset that has seriously contributed to a country like China’s socio-economic development. The main purpose of this paper is to conduct a sociolinguistic investigation to show that…
RETHINKING AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS’ IDENTITY: AFROPOLITANISM IN TEJU COLE’S OPEN CITY AND TAIYE SELASI’S GHANA MUST GO
The representation of the postcolonial African identity has always been the concern of African creative writers and scholars. For decades, Afro-pessimism and postcolonial Manicheanism have been paradigms that prevail in the African literary landscape. This paper seeks to delineate how Afropolitanism attempts…
RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AND IMPEDIMENT: A SURVEY OF ACHEBE’S TRILOGLY
religion is not a gift from our parents but a legacy to our children. As such it must be preserved and be transmitted duly from a generation to another. Unfortunately, religion is being deprived from its legendary values structured around dialogue, peace,…
THE REPRESENTATION OF PANA-AFRICANISM IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND CHIKA UNIGWE’S NIGHT DANCER
One of the most recurrent concerns of African writers is the identity crisis brought about by colonial education and the political system implemented through African administrations and institutions. African novelists use their literary works to decry the wrongs that impede the development…
MEDIAS AND THE IMMIGRANT’S CULTURAL METAPHORSIS IN NOVIOLET BULAWAYO’S WE NEED NEW NAMES
The objective of this study is to highlight the process of cultural alienation of the migrants’ subjects through Medias in Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. Indeed, like other immigrants’ characters, the protagonist Darling is culturally upset when she arrives in the host…
MIGRATION AND IDENTITY (RE)CONSTRUCTION: THE SHAPING OF IDENTITY IN ERNEST J. GAINES’ CATHERINE CARMIER
Grounded on deconstruction, this paper stresses on the changes in migrants’ identity. It assesses the ambivalent impacts of migration on identity (re)formation in Catherine Carmier. For a community that considers migration as a quest for education and employment to improve its life…
COLONIALISM AND BLASPHEMED RACIALIZATION IN JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
This research investigates the postcolonial concept of colonialism and blasphemed racialization in Waiting for the Barbarians by John Maxwell Coetzee. It analyzes the fractured relation between Blacks and Whites during colonization. In fact, colonial era has favored the domination of Whites over…
RE-VISUALIZING FEMALE IDENTITIES IN AFRICAN AND WESTERN SPACES IN DARKO’S BEYOND THE HORIZON AND UNIGWE’S ON BLACK SISTERS’ STREET
The current paper re-visualizes female identities in African and western spaces in Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. It explores African women’s lives in Africa and in the West. The objective of this study is to determine that…
HE PROCESS OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION: A STUDY OF BARACK OBAMA’S DREAM FROM MY FATHER
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BLURRING IDENTITY AND BOUNDARY: CASE STUDY OF JAMES WELCH’S WINTER IN THE BLOOD
This article explores identity and boundary issues in Native American works of fiction. It focusses on James Phillip Welch’s Winter in the Blood analyzing the central character’s shuffling between Native Americans’ and Whites’ cultures. By means of a postmodern analysis, this article…
FOSTER CHILDREN’S IDENTITY ISSUE IN THE CONTEXT OF IMMIGRATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE NEW TRIBE BY BUCHI EMECHETA
This paper analyses a protagonist’s life whose membership inside his family seems to call in question his genuine identity for he is a foster child. This one is stigmatised because of his skin colour and hardly achieves to blossom within society. The…
BREXIT AND THE DIALECTIC OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AND IDENTITY IN ANDREW MARR’S HEAD OF STATE
This paper examines the crisis of a common European identity in Andrew Marr’s novel, Head of State. Drawing on Karl Marx’s belief that life is materialistic; the article explores how Britain’s socio-economic crisis triggers the Britons’ animosity toward a common European socio-political…
QUEST FOR AN AFRICAN IDENTITY IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE NEW TRIBE
Slavery and colonisation have entailed horrible consequences for Africans. Thus, some of them were forced to leave their homelands to Europe and America. The sequel to this separation from their homes is the loss of their former identity; due to a difficult…
NARRATING THE MULTIFORM IDENTITY: MIGRATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM IN HELON HABILA’S TRAVELLERS
This article explores the growing phenomenon of migration of people from former colonies to European countries. The tremendous economic and technological development, in addition to the projected western humanism and generosity constitute the main drives of this massive influx of migrants into…
FROM VIRTUAL MIGRATION TO GLOBALIZATION: THE PRESENCE OF THE ELSEWHERE IN THE HERE IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK AND AMERICANAH.
This study analyses the issue of the connection between virtual migration and globalization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s literary works, namely The Thing Around Your Neck (2009) and Americanah (2013). Focused on postocolonial theoretical approach, precisely on Bill Ashcroft and his peers’ conception…
INTRACONTINENTAL MIGRATION AND THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF NOVIOLET BULAWAYO’S WE NEED NEW NAMES
This paper intends to demonstrate the way movements across national borders within Africa foster the development of the continent. It explores NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel We Need New Names and brings out how the author has imagined such development capacity in the…
THE AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE ELSEWHERE: AN AFROPOLITAN ANALYSIS OF DARKO’S BEYOND THE HORIZON AND WALKER’S POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY
Globalization catalyses the proliferation of transnational literature across disciplines and the contemporary African and African-American novels are no exception. They develop Afropolitan topics in which emerge new kinds of migrating populations composed of people whose patterns of life encompass both their host…
POST-MIGRATION BRITISH LITERATURE: AN ANALYSIS OF SPACE AND HYBRIDITY IN HANIF KUREISHI’S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA (1990)
Black British literature is the space of representation of the migratory flow. It analyses the effect of emigration on literary productions. The present study is an investigation on the second generation of writers with the case of Hanif Kureishi, a writer from…